Setting up partitions

cessman4life · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 141

I have Windows XP, Xandros and would like to setup Gentoo on a final partition. For Xandros I already have /boot, swap and /root. Do I need to setup another /boot and swap partition for Gentoo or can they share? I tried once and it broke networking in one of the Linux distros. What is the correct way?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject:

cessman4life,

Its safe and even encoraged to share /boot and swap.
When you install Gentoo, do not install grub again. Just add a new booting block for Gentoo to the grub.conf you already have.

Grub problems and network problems are not related. It should all be happy together.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

cessman4life · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 141

What if I install Gentoo with GRUB and then add the other partitions...will that cause any problems?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject:

cessman4life,

The same applies, share /boot, install grub only once, for whatever distro is first, then add booting blocks to grub.conf for the other distros as required.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

cessman4life · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 141

Thanks. I'm sure that will work so I will try it later.